{"id":13918,"date":"2023-05-06T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:18:28","slug":"les-miserables-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/les-miserables-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LES MISERABLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13903\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-scaled-236x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-scaled-236x350.jpeg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-scaled-826x1224.jpeg 826w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-768x1138.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-scaled-600x888.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/les-miserables-2-scaled.jpeg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">LES MISERABLES\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2019 \u2013 103\u2032 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama<br \/>\nWritten by\u00a0\u00a0Ladj Ly, Alexis Manenti.<br \/>\nDirected by\u00a0Ladj Ly.<br \/>\nStarring\u00a0Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Jeanne Balibar<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival (Winner Jury&#8217;s Prize). Toronto International Film Festival.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition\u00a0<b>COLCOA 2019<\/b>\u00a0(Opening Film, Winner Best First Feature Award).<br \/>\nAcademy Award Nomination 2020 for Best International Feature Film.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nAn Amazon Prime release.|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>Victor Hugo\u2019s magnum opus is both lionized and shaken up in\u00a0<strong>Ladj Ly<\/strong>\u2019s sprawling fresco of his native Montfermeil \u2014 a collection of housing projects crawling with sleazy cops, small-time hoods, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a ragtag group of kids left to fend for themselves\u2026 all jockeying for turf and struggling to forestall the inevitable. Majestic, stirring, gripping and compassionate, with a musical score that is, at once, moving and thrilling, the film follows an upright cop on his first day on the job, as he learns the ropes and struggles to hold onto his principles. It opens with a rousing rendition of\u00a0La Marseillaise\u00a0and a joyous eruption of\u00a0fraternit\u00e9, and concludes with a resounding eleventh-hour alarm and powerful plea to diffuse the tinderbox and somehow resolve all this (justified) anger and violence. Because the revolution is ever at hand!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mis%C3%A9rables-Damien-Bonnard\/dp\/B08DK823DK\/ref=sr_1_6?crid=39VEQZUOO5QUI&amp;keywords=les+miserables+prime+video&amp;qid=1683405097&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sprefix=Les+Miserables%2Cinstant-video%2C136&amp;sr=1-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LES MISERABLES\u00a0 | 2019 \u2013 103\u2032 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama Written by\u00a0\u00a0Ladj Ly, Alexis Manenti. Directed by\u00a0Ladj Ly. Starring\u00a0Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Jeanne Balibar Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival (Winner Jury&#8217;s Prize). Toronto International Film Festival. Official Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2019\u00a0(Opening Film, Winner Best First Feature Award). Academy Award Nomination 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-tafff-awards-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21440,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions\/21440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}